Kerkramen c. 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this sketch for stained-glass windows probably as he was designing the real things. It's all about the process, right? You can see the ghost of erasures and corrections in a tangle of lines. Look how the pencil kind of floats across the page. The texture of the paper itself becomes part of the drawing. It gives a sense of a fleeting thought, captured just for a moment. In the top corner, there's this wild scrawl of calculations, which seems so far removed from the eventual, refined beauty of a stained-glass window. It’s like a window into the messy, beautiful reality of making. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's process, but with a practical purpose. Art isn't just about the end result, it's about that messy, human journey. And sometimes, the sketch has a beauty all its own.